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Michael Field - Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses

This is a collection of poems by Michael Field, the pseudonym of Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper. Those poems are of interest not only because they are beautiful examples of aesthetic poetry, but also...

KHand and 3 more 1 hour 17 minutes

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George R. Sims - In The Workhouse: Christmas Day

George R. Sims was a journalist of the Victorian era who was mostly concerned with social reforms. He was very interested in the life of the poor. This is a dramatic monologue by an inmate at a workhouse, exposing the...

Greg Giordano and 1 more 15 minutes

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Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress (version 2)

Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John...

Amelia Chesley and 12 more 38 minutes

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Christina Rossetti - Uphill

Rossetti began writing down and dating her poems from 1842, mostly imitating her favoured poets. From 1847 she began experimenting with verse forms such as sonnets, hymns and ballads; drawing narratives from the...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 20 minutes

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Robert Browning - Easter Interpreted

Robert Browning is still well-known today as a distinguished English poet. His poetry is still widely read, recited, and taught in schools. In this little volume, Rose Porter has compiled a collection of his poems...

Larry Wilson and 3 more 23 minutes

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Andrew Barton Paterson - ''In Re a Gentleman, One''

Paterson lived and worked in Sydney for most of his adult life, but his poems mostly presented a highly romantic view of the bush and the iconic figure of the bushman. Influenced by the work of another Australian poet...

Algy Pug and 11 more 36 minutes

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Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney - Oh, For a Home of Rest!

Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney was a Quaker minister who, when her husband Joseph John Gurney died in 1847, continued the labours of a traveling minister. She corresponded with Abraham Lincoln, who was found to have a...

Algy Pug and 14 more 25 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Amy Ella Blanchard - Kittyboy's Christmas

Is Santa Claus real? Six year old Elinor thinks so as she sends her letter, and persuades her friend Bill to do likewise. On the other side of town, a stray kitten adopts a lonely bachelor. As the two worlds come...

Lynne T 1 hour

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James Whitcomb Riley - Dead Joke and The Funny Man

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the «Hoosier Poet» and «Children's Poet» for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. As...

Bev J Stevens and 8 more 11 minutes

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Bomb: The 1945 Test of the First Atomic Bomb

War & Military

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Bomb: The 1945 Test of the First Atomic Bomb

These two publications put out by the U.S. government are about the Trinity site in New Mexico where in 1945 the first atomic bomb was tested. Each publication (about 1984 and about 1995) complements the other, though...

David Wales 1 hour 1 minute

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Lord Alfred Douglas - Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes

This is a collection of ten humorous verses by Lord Alfred Douglas. — Summary by Carolin

Algy Pug and 3 more 23 minutes

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Bernard Gilbert - Rebel Verses

Mr. Bernard Gilbert is one of the discoveries of the War. For years, it seems, he has been writing poetry, but it is only recently that an inapprehensive country has awakened to the fact. Now he is taking his rightful...

Jason in Panama and 8 more 1 hour 15 minutes

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